Mouse behaviour capturing

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I have an MFC application (VC6). I'd like to know how can I capture the mouse behaviour (coordinates, clicks etc.) if the mouse pointer is on Firefox or Opera browser windows, if they are launched?

Posted 28-Dec-09 0:28am

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Updated 29-Dec-09 1:03am

Rajesh R Subramanian

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Emilio Garavaglia · Accepted Answer · 2009-12-28T08:49:00

What are you going to do with that, not knowing the window content?

If you want to handle mouse movements on the elements of a web page you should use Javascripts in response to element events inside the HTML of tha page.

If you want to know what's going on in windows, you can set a windows hook (see SetWindowsHookEx on MSDN).

But they are completely different stories!

Rajesh R Subramanian · Accepted Answer · 2009-12-29T01:01:00

Solution 2

You'll need to install a global mouse hook. Here's a sample implementation with some nice theory on hooks in general: Hooks and DLLs[^]

Posted 29-Dec-09 1:01am